Boseman High School Shenanigans: Episode 1

Discovering nothing more in the room, Lily and Zach exit after the boy drops the disturbing harness back to the floor. They close and re-lock the door, then Fred and Emily are at the next... cell? Is that what all these were?

It was the same kind of door, certainly, also locked with a bolt from the outside, and also equipped with a sliding metal viewing plate. This time, though, when Fred opens the plate, there is more to see. It's a similar padded room, likely another place where the mentally infirm were locked so they would not injure their loved ones or themselves, but lying on the floor is a person. The LED light can't quite illuminate the whole cell, but it's not hard to see that a man in a suit lies on his back with his arms over his head... looking like he's been dragged into the room by his feet.

An odor curls Emily's nostrils as she peers at the scene, and suddenly the buzz of many flies sounds. A few streak straight towards the white light of the girl's phone, attracted to it through the small square opening in the door...

As the door opens and Lily goes in first, the smell worsens -- as does the buzz of flies, as dozens of the things take flight from the body as Palmer approaches. The things are nasty as they fly into, land on, and bounce off anyone coming into the room, seeming particularly interested in exposed orifices. The smell is bad, but not overwhelming -- the man on the floor does not seem like he's been dead for an extended period time, and no rot is visible on his just-beginning-to-bloat features... which Lily thinks she recognizes.

The silver hair and beard... it can only be one man. It's Vice Principal Kilvert, and he's lying on a blood-soaked tarp.

Fred has seen dead bodies before too. He's smelled blood. He's seen eyes the light has gone out of -- like Kilvert's now.

The amount of blood behind the man's head and in his hair is the tip-off. Someone or something struck the vice principal from behind, crushing his skull, partly caving it in...Alone in the hallway now, Emily hears... something. A thumping, or pounding? Coming from down the hall, likely one of the other doors. And then, perhaps more spine-tinglingly, her glance down the hall reveals a glimmer of reddish light in the deep gloom -- well beyond the range of her phone light, but moving, shifting.